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So here’s to hoping that Gabby Douglas goes down as the gymnast with the great smile. I mean, that’s really the thing about her that stood out to me, that smile that is just enormous and overwhelming that makes you smile, too. She inspires young girls to excel. So, let’s not put her in a box based on her race where the race becomes the chief qualifier for her achievement. Well, she’s amazing because she’s the first black gymnast to win. Who cares, right, what race she is?

Anyway, here’s hoping she’s someone who is a symbol of achievement for whether you’re black, white or anything else.

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Erin Burnett, last night on her CNN show Erin Burnett Outfront.

“Who cares, right, what race she is?”

“Who cares, right, what race she is?”

“Who cares, right, what race she is?”

A white person trying to frame the accomplish of an individual black girl as a victory for every race of people, because black people just wouldn’t share the accomplishment of Gabby Douglas with others, right?! 

Again, someone explain to me why I would want a world where we get to pretend race doesn’t exist. Isn’t that already the worldview of white people that don’t want to talk about race and pretend that glossing over its issues will make it go away. 

That sounds amazing!